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Lizards don't look anything like dinosaurs. Why doesn't anyone understand this?... Ignore what you've seen in the cheesy old movies made by those who don't know anything; there's not even one dinosaur that looks anything like a lizard. It's so obvious it bothers me that no one can see this.

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If the Bible is interpreted literally, then it is clear that its authors believed that the world was a flat disc, which was originally said to be covered by a giant crystal dome. It was a common belief at the time in all the neighboring regions. But it was still wrong. The Biblical authors obviously knew nothing about the real state of this world nor the worlds beyond this one either. But we know what lies outside our atmosphere. And that proves that there is no water above where the firmament isn't, and no windows to let it drain in -if there was either water or firmament there.

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The people who are overtly bigoted against gays now are often the same people who were openly bigoted against blacks years ago.

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Of all the developed nations throughout Christendom, only the United States has a significant number of creationists, and they're the minority even here! Every other predominantly-Christian country tends to regard creationism as an incredulous, (if not insane) radical fringe movement which is an almost exclusively American phenomenon, and not taken seriously anywhere else. Poll after poll continues to reveal that, around the world, most evolutionists are Christian, and most Christians are evolutionists. So evolution is not synonymous with atheism, and creationism isn't synonymous with Christianity either. Most creationists aren't even Christians! There are millions more Muslim and Hindu creationists than Christian ones.

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Who is this God? The god of the Jews? Those who say they're God's chosen people? And what of these Commandments? The covenant between God and Israel? And why only Israel? Because neither their God or their fables were ever intended for the whole of mankind. It is the folklore of one particular tribe of superstitious primitives and is meaningless to us in the here and now, especially since your God never even existed. So these laws were given by men after all.

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Creationists insist that mutations are very rare and are usually, if not always harmful. But the fact is that the vast majority of mutations are completely neutral. They'd have to be because, according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, there is an overall average of 128 mutations per human zygote! So apparently, in creationist terms, very rare means more than a hundred per person right from the point of conception. Because those are just the mutations we start out with. Our cells will mutate again 30 more times over the course of our lives, and some of these subsequent mutations can be passed on to our children too –usually with no more effect than those we recognize as family traits.

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Despite the severity of their punishments, religions have still consistently failed in virtually all attempts to curtail criminal behavior, and have in fact actually empowered or promoted criminality in many ways. More reasonable laws are usually more effective.

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No matter what, creationists will not admit that anything we ever find can fulfill Darwin's prediction of transitional intermediates. This is why creationists demand only monstrous absurdities or issue challenges they know still couldn't be satisfied no matter how true evolution may be; because they know already that whatever they insist on seeing today we may show them tomorrow, and if that happens, they'll have to make up new excuses for why it still doesn't count. So they won't request to see anything evolution actually requires, and they usually won't define any criteria they would accept either, because they already know they won't accept anything even if we show them everything they ever ask for.

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Creationists insist that macroevolution has never been observed, and the excuse they use to deny that it has requires the addition of a bogus condition that simply does not apply. Creationists argue that evolution can only occur within definite limits, and then only to subtle variance within their kind. They say new diversity is limited to rare and unviable hybrids between those kinds, and they usually say that the emergence of new species is impossible. No Darwinist would ever say any of these things.

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The Ten Commandments weren't historical. They're mythical, because they never existed and neither did Moses, neither does God; none of that is evidently real. Even rabbinical scholars now admit a consensus among archaeologists that the Exodus never happened, because the Hebrews were never enslaved in Egypt the way the Bible describes. Moses's childhood river arc was taken from the Saga of Sargon, and the parting of the Red Sea was adapted from the legend of an Egyptian pharaoh from an earlier millennium [Snefru and Djadjamankh]. Belief in the Ten Commandments never changed anything for the better either; most of the believers professing to promote them can't even recite them, and never knew what they meant.

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A lot of folks are concerned about having yet another devoutly religious whackjob as president, but that's just a four year run, and we've survived that before. I'm more concerned with who sits on the Supreme Court, because that decision could cause continuing damage for decades, lasting much longer. At least one and perhaps three justices will be replaced within the next four years, and Romney has already said that he will put in more people like Scalia and Tomson: he wants right-wing religious conservative republicans.

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Now I would say that any honest earnest quest for truth must begin with the abandonment of faith. Are you prepared to lie in order to maintain your self-induced delusion? Or are you bold enough to question your own convictions and even test them to find out if they're true, and discard them if they are not? That's the rift. That's the difference between us.

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Creationists often cite the laws of Thermodynamics as if they could somehow apply to the diversification of life on earth. They don't. Lord Kelvin, the scientist who discovered those laws was a creationist himself. He was definitely opposed to evolution. But even he said that thermodynamics demands that the earth would still have to be on the order of twenty to forty million years old at least, even if the bowels of the world didn't continue to heat themselves radioactively, which of course they do, and that pushes the age back much further.

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[According to the Qur'an] God will punish me for not believing even though it is his fault that I don't believe. God doesn't need to seal my heart and my ears or cover my eyes. How about providing something that I could see or hear that would actually indicate a god? Why does God demand faith in lieu of evidence? I think it's not just that there is no evidence, but that the reason there isn't is because there is no god either.

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We 'unbelievers' are not a threat; we offer help. Whoever comes away from delusion will be better off. Just ask some of those who already have. They'll be happy to help you.

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To the best of my understanding, bigotry, intolerance and hatred are not values, but then faith isn't a virtue either.

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Your greatest strength, Ray, and possibly your only strength, is in pretending that you don't understand simple things.

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... back when nearly everyone in the Western World was ruled by religions touting these Commandments, it was a period of unparalleled tyranny and cruelty known as the Dark Ages. It was a time of thought police, when one could be killed simply for not believing what they were told. The first half [of the Ten Commandments] only serves to promote religion, with no benefit to humanity at all. Education, enlightenment and free inquiry are the key, not the forced conformity by those claiming authority from an imaginary being.

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Having actually read all of the Commandments listed from Exodus 20 through Exodus 34 (and many of the other Commandments strewn about the Old Testament), it is obvious that anyone who uses them as a moral guide would be a criminal in every country on this planet. The Bible does not promote morality; it only commands obedience to an amoral, oppressive and unjustly enforced belief system.

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It is important to note that humans are a subset of apes, being members of the taxonomic superfamily Hominoidea. This is no arbitrary classification, but one that is objectively verifiable through phylogenetics. This is a fact that can be proven regardless what you would rather believe. Yet no religion either accounts for this fact nor even acknowledges it, as it stands against all their collective mythology.

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Each of my science books said, This is why we think this; this is how we figured it out; and this is what we still don't know. That I can trust. And it inspires me to contribute. Conversely, religious books claim to already know everything we'll ever need to know, even thought they never explained everything; and you're forbidden to question them. Instead, you should believe them without suspicion and simply because they said so (even when they have already been proven wrong). This is why the word 'confidence man' describes a criminal swindler. Such people should not be trusted. When is it ever wise to believe someone without question?

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The story of the Ten Commandments is clearly based on the earlier story of the law code of Hammurabi, which was a better list and actually existed in real history centuries before the legends now attributed to Moses. Since then, people have come up with better documents like the Magna Carta and the U. S. Constitution. These are better, largely because they stand against what [the] Commandments represent; giving power to the people instead of indomitable despots.

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The idea that certain races (or species) are 'higher' or 'lower' was not Darwin's idea but the universal language of all prior naturalists since forever. Darwin acknowledges this, but does not contribute to it, other than to suggest that Caucasians are not the ultimate form of mankind.

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Most Christians would say that evolution is one of God's creative methods. But creationists reject that possibility outright, because the issue for them is not whether their God is true; but whether their dogma is true. It can't be in any case. Even if current concepts of evolution were proven wrong tomorrow, Biblical creationism still couldn't be true either, because it has already been disproved many times, many ways, and collapses on its own lack of merit. But of course believers can never admit that.

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It doesn't matter what you believe; all that matters is why you believe it, and how accurate you can show your beliefs to be.

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